Every woman I know in her 40s or 50s is cooler, hotter, wiser, and more badass than she was in her 20s and 30s. The anti-aging industry is lying to you. Don’t let them exploit your insecurities to sell you shit you don’t need for problems you don’t have.

So let me get this straight🤔the US president used Americas millitary and killed 80 in Venezuela so he could steal Venezuelas oil for at least 500 million dollars that he put in to a personal bank account in Qatar and no one from the American media is talking about this 🤦

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Standing ovation for Mark Carney at Davos. (Those do not happen often). Brutally honest assessment of the situation Trump is creating for the world and the new approach middle powers now need to take. One of those speeches worth reading in full. Check it out

“I will talk today about the breaking of the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction & the beginning of a brutal reality where the geopolitics of the great powers is not subject to any constraint” Standing ovation for Carney eulogy of the world order nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/…

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has now signed the document on Belarus's accession to Trump's "Board of Peace." To my best knowledge, Trump's "Board of Peace" currently consists of United States, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Albania, and Uzbekistan.

It has come to this: Canada is preparing military plans to respond in case the US invades along the southern border. The Canadian plan reportedly calls for guerrilla warfare, sabotage, hit-and-run attacks. It's hard to avoid the impression that we Americans are the new Russians.

This teacher-turned-cognitive scientist shared a disturbing reality that left the room stunned. “Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.” Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s. So, what happened?

She’s right but the line “Europe is going to do a big SWOT analysis” makes me want to take my own life.

Trump is trying to eject South Africa from the G20 and replace it with Poland at his Miami G20 summit this year. Interestingly, Poland is now promising to "work alongside South Africa" at the G20 to advocate for inclusive growth.

what a time to have an anxiety disorder, a love of history, and a compulsive need to stay informed

This is increasingly looking like market manipulation. Create impression they’ll take over Greenland, markets go down. Say they won’t do it by force, markets go up. And repeat.

For context, there's approximately 13.4 million learners and 410,000 teachers in South Africa's public schools. So these figures constitute 1.8% (learners) and 0.8% (teachers) of the totals, respectively

As insane as this sounds, it’s true: Pam Bondi sent Minnesota officials a letter today saying ICE would leave the state if Minnesota turns over its voter files to the Trump Administration. They’re openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure.

Excellent, lucid analysis by Francis Fukuyama.

IMAGINE BEING AFRAID OF DIVERSITY BUT NOT DICTATORSHIP

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: Protesters in Los Angeles just projected an anti-ICE video onto a building. And it wasn’t just any building. It was Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where LASD actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screening. This is what resistance looks

Worth point out how unusual it is, on a global scale, to have someone executed on their knees in the street by a masked paramilitary that only answers to the executive and that operates entirely extra-legally, with total impunity, deployed to wage a terror campaign on a city's

South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV, c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent 9 weeks at No. 1 spot.